Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 10:00am
Laura Carlsen
Mexico City-based U.S. journalist, Laura Carlsen, gives an update on the Ayotzinapa case and the current political situation in the country.
This mostly forgotten war led to Mexico losing over half its territory and the United States expanding to the Pacific. The lecture examines the political and economic background of the conflict, what led to it, and the roles of such factors as Texas annexation in 1845, slavery, racism, the Democratic and Whig parties, and Manifest... Read more